>>>>> Alex Tomas (AT) writes:
AT> I see. though my point is a bit different:
AT> say, there is an application that's doing big linear writes in order
AT> to achieve good throughput. on the other hand, most of modern storages
AT> are very sensible to request size and tend to suck serving zillions
AT> of small I/Os. raid5 breaks all incoming requests into small ones and
AT> handles them separately. of couse, one might be lucky and after submiting
AT> those small requests get merged to larger ones. but only due to luck,
AT> I'm afraid. what I'm talking about is expressly code in raid5 that
AT> would try to merge small requests in some obvious cases.
AT> for example:
sorry, forgot to include the example ...
there is 3 disks raid5 with chunk=64K. one does 128K request.
and in make_request() we do something like this:
struct context {
struct bio *bios[FOR_EVERY_DISK];
};
/* initialize context with empty bio's */
for (all internal stripes) {
sh = get_active_stripe();
add_stripe_bio(sh, bi, ...);
handle_stripe(sh, context);
}
/* submit all non-empty bio's from the context */
and in handle_stripe(): instead of immediate calling
generic_make_request() try to merge request to correspondend
bio in the context.
I understand there are few different limits to bio size,
active stripes, etc. but what do you think about the idea in general?
thanks, Alex
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